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In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.
Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party-so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities-from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground-gathered in an ongoing...
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"In turns beloved and reviled, twentieth century art, painter, filmmaker, and designer Salvador Dali set Europe and the United States ablaze with his uncompromising genius, sexual sadism, and flirtations with megalomania. His shocking behavior and work frequently alienated critics; his views were so outrageous, even prominent Surrealists tried to ostracize him. Still, every morning he experienced "an exquisite joy--the joy of being Salvador Dali,"...
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Disguised as a book of innocent postcards, Slingshot is a dangerous collection of Eric Drooker's most notorious posters. Plastered on brick walls from New York to Berlin, tattooed on bodies from Kansas to Mexico City, Drooker's graphics continue to infiltrate and inflame the body politic. Drooker is the author of two graphic novels, Flood! A Novel in Pictures (winner of the American Book Award), and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He collaborated with...
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Este libro presenta la obra del artista brasileño Cildo Meireles, bajo el hilo conductor del concepto de "estudio". Parte significativa de su obra es publicada aquí con fotos de importantes exposiciones, bocetos y dibujos que muestran el proceso de concepción y realización de esas obras. Entre las instalaciones mas notables, están Eureka/ Blindhotland, Malhas da liberdade, La bruja, Desvio para o vermelho y Através, y también otras menos conocidas...
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This book presents Cildo's work, focusing on his "studies". A great part of his most relevant works are shown here not only through photos of them in exhibitions, but also through Cildo's drawings and sketches, which allow us to see his processes of creation. In here, there are well-known installations such as Eureka / Blindhotland, Malhas da Liberdade, La Bruja and Desvio para o Vermelho, Através. There are also some of his less known works, never...
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This state of the union is not normal.
In this clothbound, hardcover volume, acclaimed artist Ward Schumaker transforms the egregious utterances of the 45th president of the United States of America into provocative text-based paintings. Translating the politics of our moment into visceral works of art, Schumaker offers an alternative to the desensitizing barrage of the news media. Refusing to sanitize or explain these statements, he intuitively...
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Creative Infrastructures is a new collection of connected essays that examines the relationships between art, innovation, entrepreneurship and money. Essig uses her extensive knowledge of the field of arts entrepreneurship and puts it to broader practical use and greater impact by offering a theory for arts entrepreneurship that places more emphasis on means over ends. Essig uses illustrative case studies to show how her theoretical framework explains...
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This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy's most innovative pieces ever.
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism, Banksy's work is now venerated, collected, and preserved.
Over the course of a decade, Martin Bull has documented dozens of the most important and impressive works...
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Moorcock's own literary accomplishments include his classic Mother London, a romp through urban history conducted by psychic outsiders; his comic Pyat quartet, in which a Jewish anti-Semite examines the roots of the Nazi Holocaust; Behold The Man, the tale of a time tourist who fills in for Christ on the cross; and of course the eternal hero Elric, swordswinger, hellbringer and bestseller.
And now, Moorcock's most audacious creation, Jerry Cornelius-assassin,...
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En este polémico y desafiante conjunto de ensayos, el joven fundador y ex director del Palais de Tokyo parisino, Nicolas Bourriaud -autor del libro recientemente reeditado por Adriana Hidalgo, 'Postproducción'- precisa el sistema de ideas y el funcionamiento de un nuevo paradigma artístico destinado a interactuar en la esfera de las relaciones sociales.
Las teorizaciones que recorren 'Estética relacional' surgen precisamente a partir del conocimiento...
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Publié en partenariat avec l'association "Solidarité laïque".
Avec 100 portraits d'enfants de tous les horizons, l'infatigable voyageuse Françoise Caillette-Deneubourg illustre la très mal connue « Déclaration des droits de l'enfant » adoptée par l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU en novembre 1959. O il est démontré par l'image que ceux qui représentent notre avenir commun ont droit avant tout à notre respect, et pour commencer à une...
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A historical novel based around Jules Bastien-Lepage's obsession with the creation of his painting of Joan of Arc that today is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Set against the backdrop of the emergence of the French Third Republic and enmeshed in the political battle between Catholicism and Secularism, the context of the painting as a politically disruptive work is exposed. From Bastien-Lepage's days at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, his...
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A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world.
The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization...
The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization...
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Stemming from a performance that originated at the Guggenheim Museum, “The Francis Effect” explores Tania Bruguera's work as an artist, activist, and Cuban immigrant to the US engaging the tension between art's pragmatic, activist, and aesthetic possibilities.
The performance of “The Francis Effect” follows the guise of a political campaign, aiming to request that the Pope grant Vatican City citizenship to all immigrants and refugees. As a...
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Artist Susan Kleinberg's piece, "Perceiving Courage" premiered at the 2001 Venice Biennale, then showed at PS1/MoMA in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and has been shown around the world. It is conversations linked to photographs of dozens of people from all walks of life, including Cong. John Lewis, astronaut Sally Ride, author Gore Vidal, former President Bill Clinton, domestic worker Santa Isaacs, former Italian Prime Minister...
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Dame la libertad para poner un fin. De diarios y cartas es un documento vivo impactante que recoge reflexiones, sentimientos y recuerdos que abarcan tres imperios alemanes y dos guerras mundiales. Leemos sobre el miedo de una madre por su familia, sobre las dudas y frustraciones del trabajo artístico, sobre su biografía política —que va desde la convicción revolucionaria hasta la distancia crítica—, sobre el amor, el tiempo y la muerte. Sus...
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